PLANNING has started to mark the 100th anniversary in 2021 of Wingham Rugby League Club's first season.
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Wingham Football Club switched from rugby union to rugby league in 1921.
Club officials are planning a reunion next season while Graham Steel will update his history of the club - Blood, Sweat and Beers, launched in 2005.
Rugby Union had been the dominant code in the Manning up until the First World War, however, players lured by the prospect of match payments switched to the professional game when organised sport resumed after the war.
By the mid 1920s rugby league had usurped union as the main football code in the Manning.
There's no senior league in this area this year for the first time since the end of World War II, with the majority of clubs unwilling to commit because of COVID-19 restrictions. The Group Three competition was to start on Saturday May 2.
Meanwhile, Wingham expects improvements at the Wingham Sporting Complex to be complete before the start of the centenary season in 2021.